Weird focus behavior when focused item is removed

[mzebrak]

While writing MRE for #5629 I noticed a strange thing with focus. When the focused element is removed, focus jumps to the last element on the screen.

Looks like that's because the previous element on the screen is being focused instead of focusing the next one.

MRE

from __future__ import annotations

from textual import on
from textual.app import App, ComposeResult
from textual.widgets import Button


class ExampleApp(App):
    def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
        for i in range(20):
            yield Button(f"Remove {i}")

    @on(Button.Pressed)
    def remove_item(self, event: Button.Pressed) -> None:
        event.button.remove()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    ExampleApp().run()

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